Winterhaven Healthcare Residence
6534 Stuebner Airline Rd, Houston TX 77091 · (713) 692-5137 · 31.12% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Nov 1, 2019 · By Sara Levinsohn
Winterhaven Healthcare Residence is a large facility in Houston, Texas. With a really poor overall grade of F, this facility isn't high on our list. If you aren't happy with this nursing home, you should be able to find another option in Houston, as the city has more than 25 nursing homes. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is nursing, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 160 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
Although we gave this nursing home a terrible overall score, we awarded it a B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing grade analyzes several datapoints, but the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. According to CMS records, this place averaged 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Keep in mind that when we calculate our nursing grades, we add more weight to hours performed by nurses with a higher level of skill. Finally, our nursing ratings also include quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed above average in this area. This is usually a reliable indicator of how carefully a nursing home's nursing staff is tending to its residents. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses and superior safety protocols are used.
Short-term Care Quality
We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care rating and that actually ended up being its second most respectable score. With our short-term care score, we attempt to craft a fair measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 43.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.
Long-term Care Quality
Sadly, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care score. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. Even though we determined this nursing home had a favorable amount of nursing hours provided by aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be a bit below average. It gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 65.454544 percent of its residents. This is one figure we'd love to see this facility bring up. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.
Facility Inspections
In our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F here. Since this information is collected by independent government inspectors, we heavily weight negative feedback in this area. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We suggest you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This facility was hit with a category L deficiency, which is the most severe category of deficiencies. This category indicates the government inspectors uncovered a widespread deficiency putting patient health or safety in imminent danger. Even one deficiency of this severity can drag a nursing home's inspection grade down. In addition to having severe deficiencies, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Winterhaven Healthcare Residence Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients that have sustained a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients which were administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that retained mobility levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better